Cormac McCarthy Quotes About Values

Quotes about: Values

• I don't know what sort of world she will live in and I have no fixed opinions concerning how she should live in it. I only know that if she does not come to value what is true above what is useful, it will make little difference whether she lives at all.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Differences, Doe, World

• Years later he'd stood in the charred ruins of a library where blackened books lay in pools of water. Shelves tipped over. Some rage at the lies arranged in their thousands row on row. He picked up one of the books and thumbed through the heavy bloated pages. He'd not have thought the value of the smallest thing predicated on a world to come. It surprised him. That the space which these things occupied was itself an expectation.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Lying, Book, Years

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Road”, p.199, Pan Macmillan

• If one were to be a person of value that value could not be a condition subject to hazards of fortune. It had to be a quality that could not change. No matter what.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Quality, Hazards, Matter

  Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy”, p.223, Pan Macmillan

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